Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43623, Edward Goodyear, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Goodyear, Edward
NUMBER
S 43623
CONTENTS
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16.528
New York
Edward Goodyear of Schenectady in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel A Swift - of the Connecticut line, for the term of six years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 of September 1817
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th of Mar: 1820 and sent to the Hon. S. S. Lyman House of Representatives
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1820. $ 44.64 Semi-ann. all'co ending 4 Sep: 1820, 48, 5 mos 14/30 3/30 $ 92.64
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Edward Goodyear Declaration for restoration to the pension list &c. in the Court Comm. Pleas. Schenectady County N.Y. June 4th. 1820
On List of Final Settlement Vol. 2. page 160. N o 40.988.

or ability to help himself at all upwards of three years that the injury was such that it principally effected his head and shoulders one of which shoulders was so much broken and displaced that it ever has been and still continues such that this deponent is unable to put on and off his own clothes, and to cut the meat which he needs to eat; that he has been by occasion of said injury entirely deaf but is now able to understand loud conversation and his faculties of mind have been so much impaired that until within two of the last years his powers of memory had wholly failed him which have since been improving and are now such that he can call to mind many past transactions such and so defective have been his mental faculties during the period of his long suffering that he has been incapable understandingly to testify as to his circumstances and situation which has been the only reason why he has not made earlier application to be continued a pensioner under the acts aforesaid that during his indisposition and suffering he has been attended to by physicians and surgeons who are his creditors for their services and he has been supported and provided for by the liberality of his friends he further saith that he is unable to labour, has no family to support, and no means of supporting himself but the liberality of the generous and benevolent.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th March 1818 - and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 th day of March, in the year 1818 - and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income, whatsoever - nor any family to provide for, nor to contribute to my support -
Sworn in open court this 4 th day of June 1828.
(signed) Edward Goodyear.
A. H. Marcelus. C.R.
This deponent hath not nor hath he had any lands tenements or hereditaments, nor any interest therein whatsoever except a small house from year to year, was rented, within fifteen years now last past -

The hog by this deponent owned in 1818 was fattened, put up for use, in the family and by them con- sumed; the bedding and all the property of the deponent and his family except the apparel they then had on was burned as is herein before set forth in the year 1819 - the iron ware having been broken when the house was burned -
This deponent hath now no property excepting one acre of the value of one Dollar and fifty cents and one knife of the value of twenty five cents, excepting the wearing apparel of this deponent -
The said Edward Goodyear doth upon his oath aforesaid, declare that the value of all his estate, excepting the necessary wearing apparel of himself is one dollar and seventy five cents
(signed)
Edward Goodyear -
Sworn in open court this 4 th day of June 1828 - before me A. H. Marselus Clerk
Schoharie County ss -
I Alexander H. Marselus
Clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify that it is the opin- ion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one Dollar and seventy five cents -
In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and my affixed the seal of the said court on this 24 th day of June  24 th day of June of September  June in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and twenty Eight -
A. H. Marselus Clerk

State of New York Schoharie County ss. }
On this fourth day of June, in year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight personally appeared in open court of Common pleas of the County of Schoharie in said state said court being a court of record Edward Goodyear, a President of the town of Cobleskill in the county Schoharie and state aforesaid, common labourer, aged Sixty Seven years the fourth day of March last past, according to the best of this deponents knowledge and belief who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration to obtain the provisions made by the acts of the eighteenth of March, 1818. the first of May 1820. and first of March 1823 That he the said Edward Goodyear enlisted for and during the war on or about the month of March, in the year 1777 but in what particular month or day this deponent cannot with particularity declare, thinks it was a short time before the burning of Danbury in Connecticut, that he enlisted at a place called Ramog or a like name, in the county of Litchfield and state of Connecticut, under Captain Warner whose Christian name he does not recollect, in a regiment commanded by Colonel Heman Swift in General Hunter's brigade, in the line of the state of Connecticut upon the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the corps until

the end of the war about the last day of May, in the year 1783. when he was honorably discharged at Peekskill, in the county of West. Chester in the state of New York: His discharge has long since been lost, and the particular date thereof he cannot state, but that he never omitted a tour of duty during the time of his said service, except what was occasioned by a short indisposition; that he was in arms with the militia, though young when Danbury was burned that he was engaged in the battles at Germantown, Monmouth, and afterwards at the capture of Stony Point: that on or about the seventeenth day of September, in the year 1819. this deponent made application for a pension under and by virtue of the act of the 18 th day of March in the year 1818. and that he has been placed upon the pension list roll of the New York agency, and is in possession of a certificate from the war department No 16,528, bearing date the seventeenth day of March 1820. and by which he was to receive a payment on the fourth day of September then next, in the city of New York, but that he has never received nor applied for any money under said certificate in consequence of subsequent personal injuries & losses and consequent mental privations; that after this deponent made his application for a pension as before set forth in October, in the year 1819. in the absence from the house he then occupied, it took fire accidentally, and was burned up with every article consumable by fire within it consisting of all the property owned by or possessed by this deponent excepting the apparels of himself and wife, then worn and one hog; that afterwards & before he had any knowledge that he had been placed upon the pension list roll while this deponent was chopping in the woods to procure the means of subsistence a tree fell upon him by occasion of which he continued without strength

Edward Goodyear's Pension Papers—
admitted
on R.S.C.

State of New York Schuylerville Co. ss
On the Seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred Nineteen, before me Jesse Shepard , one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Schuylerville and state of New York (said court being a court of record) personally appeared Edward Goadyear aged fifty nine years six months and twelve days, a resident of the town of Coleskill, in the county and state aforesaid, known to me to be the person described in and who being duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled, "an act to provide for cer- tain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War". That he the said Edward Goadyear having been one who volunteered to defend Danbury, when attacked burnt immediately thereafter entitled a soldier in the Continental service of the United States of America, in May, in the year 1777 accord- ing to the best of his knowledge and recollection, at the town and in the county of Litchfield, in the state of Connecticut, under Captain Warner, whose Christian name if ever known, is now forgotten, in a regiment commanded by Colonel Heman Swift , in a Brigade it is believed commanded by General Huntington , whose Christian name if ever known is also forgotten— That he the said Edward Goadyear having enlisted during the war, continued therein to the end thereof, and belonged to the regiment commanded by the said Colonel Heman Swift , that he was actually engaged, in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth, and in the taking of Stony-point by General Wayne — That he the said Edward Goadyear was honorably discharged at the close of the war, at Peshkill, in the state of New York, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, but on what

Particular day he cannot say, though in the month of May, which discharge was subscribed by some of the superior officers, but by whom he cannot now be positive, but this he does well recollect, that the said discharge set forth that he the said Colonel had been honored with three several badges of merit, for that he the said Colonel was never after his enlistment during the war prevented by sickness or other cause from discharging his duty faithfully and had the good fortune so to acquit himself, as to avoid the censure of every officer to whose command he was subjected during the war -
That the services he rendered, and the sufferings he endured were such as materially and permanently to impair one of the best original constitutions, that has ever been possessed by any individual; and reduced him with the infirmities incident to his age to a condition of necessity, that obliges him to declare that he is truly reduced in circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support -
The said Colonel Goodyear doth hereby further declare, that his honorable discharge received at the place aforesaid was sometime preserved as a testimonial grateful to a soldier's pride only, has been long since, being regarded only as a useless curiosity, in the midst of the changes pertaining to a life fraught with a full proportion of difficulties and cares, utterly lost, and is altogether out of the knowledge and power of him the said Colonel; and that he the said Colonel hereby relinquishes all claim to every pension granted or to be granted by the said states to him the said Colonel, according to the provisions of the act aforesaid - and that he the said Colonel Goodyear, from the dispossessed situation of his possessions in arms in the American war, and his inability to make thorough search for them, no other or better evidence is his power

to offer other than his own solemn declaration, than that of Jared Goodyear his brother, in his under written affidavit.
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year afore said -
Jesse Shepard
Edward Goodyear
State of New York
Schoharie County, ss
Jared Goodyear of Coleskill, in the county of Schoharie and state aforesaid, Farmer, being duly sworn saith that he is a brother of the above named Edward Goodyear, whom he has well known since he can remember, and that he well recollects the events of the American Revolutionary War as pertaining to the state of Connecticut, where his father and family then lived, and particularly the attack upon and destruction of Danbury by the British, that it was then a matter of common fame that the said Edward though young volunteered for its defence - That immediately afterwards the said Edward left home and entered a soldier in the continental army during the war, in which service he continued to the end of the war from which he returned after being discharged, to his deponent's father's in June, in the year 1783 and that the said Edward Goodyear's declaration herein before set forth, he verily believes is generally true, that the said Edward is in very reduced circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for support he knows, and further the said Jared Goodyear saith not -
Sworn & subscribed the 17th day of September, in the year of our Lord 1819. before me Jesse Shepard one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Schoharie -
Jared Goodyear
I, Jesse Shepard one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Schoharie and state aforesaid, the said Court being a court of Record, do certify that it appears to me the said Edward Goodyear did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy as stated in the preceding

Declaration and affidavit of that I am personally well acquainted with both the said Edward Goadlyear and Jared Goadlyear, and that from my acquaintance with their characters and the circumstances of the said Edward Goadlyear, I do not hesitate, but with confidence certify, that the said Edward is truly in reduced circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that I have the most entire confidence in the truth of the said Edward's declaration, and in its perfect correctness, excepting only such inaccuracies as inevitably attach themselves to transactions long since passed away. All which is respectfully submitted to the Hon. the Secretary of War. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Cobleskill, in the county of Schoharie the Seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and Nineteen - Jesse Shepard
State of New York Schoharie County. ss
I John Smart, Clerk of the court of common pleas of the said county of Schoharie Do certify that Jesse Shepard was a judge of the said Court of Common Pleas of said county on the Seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen, that his name subscribed to the declaration preceding the affidavit of Jared Goadlyear and his own certificate above, are in his own proper hand writing -
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto prefixed the seal of the said court, and subscribed my name the twentieth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen -
John Smart, Clerk

43623
INVALID.
Rev.
File No. 43,623
Edward Goodyear Rev. Rev. Mass
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 202
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Claim under the act of 1 May 1820, will be admitted, if the applicant should so require.
In letter 3 rd Oct 1828. to Jedediah Miller Esq = and to agent 4 th October 1828

Pension Office
3. Oct.
Colebrookdale Sept. 29 th
Free
Hon. Peter B. Porter, Secretary of War, Washington, District Columbia-

Colebrook. Co. Schoharie N.Y. Sept. 21 st . 1828-
Sir,
Enclosed is the renewed application of Colonel Goodyear to be restored to the pension list. The causes of his not having applied at an earlier day are truly set forth in his declaration. The neglect to have inclosed it at a day before this, is that of the clerks of the court, in not having made out the certified copy thereof, and his absence in his own and his family's sickness for a considerable length of time, during which it had been laid aside. Though established rules are not to be violated, it is hoped from the uncommon afflictions that have befallen him, the pensioner will not be deprived of an allowance from the postage of the act of 1820 - to the fourth of June last. Please when the pensioners case shall have been passed upon, to cause the determination to be communicated with all convenience to the subscriber, at the place of the date hereof.
To the Hon. Peter B. Porter, Secretary of War -
I am very respectfully, Yours obedt. Servt. Judith Miller -

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Edward Goodpaster's declaration for the benefits of the act of the 15- May 1820-

No. 1 Original Payroll - 930 REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
3 March 1829.
Edward Goodyear of Cobelskill in the County of Schoharie in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Corporal in captain Billing — 's company, in Col Swifts regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary J. H. Dickinson.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
9 March 1829
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Edward Goodyear — in the Connecticut line
It further appears that Edward Goodyear — is now on the pension list of any — — — — — agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of 8 dollars per month.
Wm Hagner Asst
10.988

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the sixteenth of May, 1828 I, Richard Goodyear , of the town of Cobleskill, in the county of Schoharie in the State of New York, Do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the army of the Revolution far and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination, at which period I was a private soldier  corporal in Captain Billings company whose christian name is not remembered, in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Heman Swift , in General Hunter's brigade, of the Connecticut line.
And I also declare that I afterwards received certificate for the reward of eighty Dollars, to which I was entitled under a resolution of Congress passed 15th. May, 1778 -
And I do further declare, that I have not at an earlier day made my claim under the act aforesaid, because until about the first of December last, I had supposed that having applied for a pension in pursuance of the act of the 18th. March, 1818, on the 17th. day of September, in the year 1819. and that having been placed upon the pension list of the New York agency, and being in possession of a certificate from the War Department No. 16,528 bearing date the 7th. day of March, 1820, and by virtue of which I was to receive a payment on the 4th. day of March September then next, the provisions of the last above mentioned act having been extended by a subsequent act, and having been by accident afterwards extremely and permanently crippled, and in consequence rendered incapable of renewing my claim, until the Summer last past, I was, by those several steps taken, precluded from claiming under the act approved on the 15th. May, 1828 - aforesaid -
And since advised that my claim might be preferred properly under the act of May 15th. 1828 - I have by disease, and the infirmities to which I am habitually subjected, been reduced so low that my life has been for upwards of a month despaired of, and I am yet very helpless.

I do further declare that having enlisted for and served during the Revolutionary war, I was honorably discharged at Peekskill, in the county of Westchester, in the state of New York, on or about the month of May, in the year 1783. The discharge then received was preserved for several years, rather as a curiosity than for usefulness, and has many years since been lost, but when or where is unknown; certainly however it is neither within my knowledge or control, and neither from the lapse of time loses, nor can I obtain any other evidence of my said enlistment and services, but the affidavit of Jared Goodyear, my brother as hereinafter is set forth -
And I do further declare, that I was not on the fifteenth day of May, in the year 1820 - on the pension list of the United States, nor have I ever received any sum of money upon or by virtue of the certificate herein before in part recited -
Witness my hand the Ninth — day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty Nine -
Edward Goodyear
Before me, George W. Porter a justice of the peace in & for the county of Schoharie and state of New York, personally appeared this day Jared Goodyear, who upon his oath saith that Edward Goodyear, who signed the above declaration is of him the said Jared Goodyear a brother, and though he was not present at the enlistment or discharge of the said Edward Goodyear yet he knows the said Edward was a continental soldier in the army of the Revolution; that it was then said he had enlisted during the war, that he was absent from his father's until the termination of said war, and that it was ever said when spoken of by the family, and their families agreement - and that he had faithfully served during the war, and was honorably discharged; and with the said Jared Goodyear also personally appeared Jesse Shepard, both being of Peekskill in the county of Schoharie and state aforesaid, who both severally make oath, that Edward Goodyear by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally respected and believed to

have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated —
Witness my hand, this ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty Nine —
George W. Porter — Justice Peace —
I John Gebhard, Junior Clerk of the court of the county of Scho- harie in the state of New York Do hereby certify, that George W. Porter, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a justice of the peace, and duly qualified to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and twenty Nine —
John Gebhard Jr. Clerk